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Immigration judges in the US
Immigration judges in the US are not chosen for knowing immigration
law, or for thinking clearly about it, and a fraction are so strongly
biased that they always deny asylum, even to people who were tortured
as political prisoners.
I am sure this is at least indirectly related by the general attitude
of hostility to immigrants.
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US judges alarmed over rise in violent threats
*US judges alarmed over rise in violent threats as Trump and Musk
lambaste them.*
I expect they see judges as the last remaining obstacle to
establishing outright dictatorship in the US, and they surely know that
their hate machine provokes real violence.
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Doge blocked from shutting down Africa development agency
*Federal workers block Musk's "Doge" from shutting down Africa
development agency.*
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Population of butterflies in US fell
The total population of butterflies in the US fell 20% from 2000 to
2020.
(I do not say "22%" because that is surely more precision
than these measurements can support.)
This decline is surely continuing.
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London low-emissions zone
The London low-emissions zone is very effective in reducing toxic air
pollution, and also substantially reduces greenhouse gas emissions from
driving.
The one really bad thing about it that it is enforced using
surveillance — and that is not inherently necessary.
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Bully threatens to deport non-citizens for "antisemitic" statements
The bully has threatened to deport non-citizens who make statements
about Gaza and Israel that the bully chooses to call "antisemitic".
As the ACLU reports, deportation on those grounds would be
unconstitutional, but the bully feels entitled to disregard the
Constitution.
The bully will surely stretch the meaning of "antisemitic",
as has become habitual for right-wing extremists,
and conflate condemnation of Israel's deadly violence with antisemitism.
To make matters worse, he proposes to use some dodgy software to make
the accusations. It is unjust to find someone guilty of anything
based on heuristics.
For the bully, rushing to judgment and punishment is a way of
demonstrating his power. Here's another act of bullying aimed
at forcing US universities into strict censorship of protests.
HAMAS plainly is a terrorist organization, but it is unjust for
governments to label groups (or individuals) as "terrorist" by fiat.
That decision calls for a fair trial.
The practice of declaring organizations "terrorist" denies a fair
trial to people charged with the crime of "aiding" that "terrorist
organization". Their trials do not try to judge the crucial question
— is that organization really terrorist? — which is simply taken for
granted.
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LA Times bullshit-generated counteropinion
The LA Times bullshit-generated counteropinion defended the KKK.
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"Policy of quiet" towards HAMAS
*Report by [Israeli intelligence] says "policy of quiet" towards HAMAS allowed it to build up resources for 2023 attack.*
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Students in Malta charged with breaking "security"
Three students in Malta and their instructor have been charged with the crime of breaking "security". They found vulnerabilities in an
app (surely nonfree) and reported them to its developer after
verifying they were real vulnerabilities.
I don't know any other facts about the app, but I expect it would be
malware. It follows that the app harms the computing security of
students who use it much more than these students did to the app.
Reporting bugs in a program helps the program's developers. If the
developers treat you decently, which includes respecting your freedom,
such cooperation is the right thing for users to do. But if the
developers thinks "security" means keeping users firmly under the
developers' power, they deserve punishment rather than help.
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Urgent: Break up Big Medicine
US citizens: call for legislation to break up Big Medicine,
including UnitedHellth.
(The article explains all the different medicine
businesses that conglomerate combines.)
I think horizontal monopolies like that used to be
limited generally by US anti-trust law.
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